Shop Video: Vee-Twin Part Five is up!
Added 2022-04-25 19:34:45 +0000 UTCThe second-to-last, and the longest yet! :)
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Ah. Yeah, I'm a mobile tradesman, and for the sake of contamination, I can't move grease brushes from one job site to the next. The less that makes contact with my work, the better.
RivCA
2022-04-30 20:04:48 +0000 UTCAnd multiple cans of The Nectar Of The Gods
Jenifur Charne
2022-04-27 10:02:56 +0000 UTCActually, I still have the same three oil brushes I started this project with, though a couple of them have lost a few bristles. Which is okay, they're cheap and disposable. Very little of the rest of the tooling is "expendable". The cutters generally last through far more abuse than I'm giving them, drills can punch thousands of holes between resharpenings... The only things I'm really "consuming" are paper towels, sandpaper and WD-40. :)
Doc Nickel
2022-04-26 18:49:36 +0000 UTCNot as much as you might think. :) The CNC machine filters and recirculates its cutting oil, so very little is lost, there. On the manual milling, I use cans of standard WD-40, and I think I've used up three of the big "industrial" cans over this entire project so far. The dark cutting oil you see occasionally? Probably only a couple ounces. And no, I don't have an automatic bandsaw. I had a horizontal for a while, but I had to let that go to make room for the CNCs. Just respect the machine and the blade, and you'll be fine.
Doc Nickel
2022-04-26 18:35:54 +0000 UTCAlong with PixelThis, I'm curious as well as to how much expendable tooling you whip through. The heat alone seems to be eating through your acid brushes like mad!
RivCA
2022-04-26 17:08:26 +0000 UTCCouple questions, how many gallons of lubricant do you go through in a process like this? Also, watching you cut those blocks on the bandsaw by hand made my fingers itch. With all the automation you have there, you don't have something to do that?
PixelThis
2022-04-26 05:05:30 +0000 UTCThat sounds about like what I was guessing. The amount of machine hours alone for one of these seems... substantial.
David Axel Hansen
2022-04-26 01:47:08 +0000 UTCWhen you're serious about a hobby, you're SERIOUS about your hobby. :D
Walter W Matera
2022-04-25 23:50:20 +0000 UTCHopin' to. :D
Doc Nickel
2022-04-25 23:25:22 +0000 UTCA complete, unanodized body kit, with everything unique to the gun (everything else you need will be factory, off-the-shelf 'Cocker parts) will be approximately $1500. This first batch I kind of underestimated costs, using numbers from back when I made the first one of these in 2004. Inflation has moved the goalposts a bit since then. :D
Doc Nickel
2022-04-25 23:25:00 +0000 UTCAsking for a friend . . . just how much is one of these little wonders going to cost
Walter W Matera
2022-04-25 22:32:19 +0000 UTCWill there be a demo in the last video?
Walter W Matera
2022-04-25 22:21:30 +0000 UTCThen like the video itself said, you should join my Patreon, and... oh, wait. :)
Doc Nickel
2022-04-25 22:18:26 +0000 UTCCan't say I'd ever thought of rifle cleaning rods, but I need a specific length and threads, so chances are I'd need to make them anyway.
Doc Nickel
2022-04-25 22:17:46 +0000 UTCI like these a lot. I'd love to see more videos like this from you after this series is over.
Spoons
2022-04-25 21:04:54 +0000 UTCDumb question. The threaded rods you were making. They look like rifle cleaning rods. Any chance of using the cleaning rods instead?
Lord Chaos
2022-04-25 20:38:52 +0000 UTC
